Quotes About Progress

Even though cultural changes cannot be measured on a day-to-day basis, changes that accrue over decades must be pursued daily.

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

Lynn Thorndike

Lynn Thorndike

It has been said that the medieval universities "affected the progress and intellectual development of Europe more powerfully, or perhaps rather more exclusively, than any schools in all likelihood will ever do again.

We therefore owe our universities to the Middle Ages.

Knowledge of history frees us to be contemporary.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go!

Robert Goddard, the father of American rocket science,

The remarkable discoveries of these scientists suggested

When he heard the news, Luftwaffe General Walter Dornberg, the director of the Peenemünde center, exultantly crowed to his staff, "This afternoon, the spaceship was born." But, as Dornberg knew, this first successful test flight of the V-2 rocket—the world's first long-range ballistic missile—had a much more immediate importance

In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.

When he took charge of the Air Corps in 1938, it was in pitiful shape—a pale shadow of the mighty Luftwaffe or Britain's Royal Air Force. Arnold himself called his service "practically nonexistent." Ranked twentieth in size among the world's air forces and still under Army control, it had a few hundred combat planes, many of them obsolete, and fewer than nineteen thousand officers and enlisted men.

Step and land, step and land. That's all travel was. Throw in some running and a change of scenery. No big deal, right? And so, off he went. Off they went together.

But not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.

Our decisions aren't just isolated choices. Our decisions point our lives in the directions we're about to head. Show me a decision and I'll show you a direction.

You can't go on this grand adventure with God and keep your old way of thinking.

Am I trying to prove or improve?

What were the unrealistic expectations I had, and how can I better manage these next time?

It is easier to make excuses than changes.

What if the worst parts of your life are actually gateways to the very best parts you'd never want to do without?